Sugar and Spice and No Longer Nice: How We Can Stop Girls' Violence

by Deborah Prothrow-Stith and Howard R. Spivak

Book Overview

Sugar and Spice and No Longer Nice is a groundbreaking book that offers parents and teachers a primer for understanding and preventing the increasing incidents of physical violence--hazing, brutality, fighting, weapons, murder--by young girls. Written by Drs. Deborah Prothrow-Stith and Howard R. Spivak--the renowned Harvard- and Tufts-based experts on preventing youth violence--this important book offers a plan to help our daughters become strong,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0787975710
• ISBN13: 9780787975715
• Release Date: May 2005
• Publisher: Jossey-Bass
• Length: 183 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Powerful Read for Those who Teach Girls

This book is a required text in the Ed.D program at Liberty University. Very interesting read. Easy to understand. Good resources.

Answers to an eras problem

This book does an excellent job of identifying, articulating and fleshing out a problem that is so ingrained in our culture, that few people realize what a problem it is. Often it is only hindsight that offers the insight that this book gives regarding the toxic levels of violence in our society. Hopefully, this book and books like it will offer a new, more sophisticated and enlightened way for humans to solve problems. Because it is all fun and games until someone loses and eye.

A Parents Call

Many experts and famous people support this books: Marian Wright-Edelman, Bill Cosby, Alvin Poussaint etc. but as a parent I want to say this book has helped tremendously. The pain my daughter and I were experiencing together and respectively was enormous. This book was a really helpful step along the long road of healing. It is many tiny hurtful incidents that can leave a large wound. It is from this wounded place that people find their violent selves and lose control. This book helped me understand that and so I understand my situation and daughter better. I treat this situation with a level of understanding and calmness that I never had before. The absence of this often made me verbally violent towards my daughter, only making our situation worse. I thank the authors for calling out a problem that everyone wants to ignore. With or without the support of experts and famous people- as a real person-I can say book gave me tools and hope and combined with other measures has helped create a better life and better for me and my daughter.